PKM Weekly - 2026-01-31

A look at the latest Personal Knowledge Management PKM news from the past week.

Hi Everyone,

We are back with another episode of PKM Weekly. Let’s see what is in store for us today.

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Thymer

• Upcoming Release

New features are about to be/already implemented.

1. Time of day: morning, afternoon, evening, night, noon, midnight, tonight keywords

2. Search: created_by and modified_by operators

3. Simple text search now matches page title as well as other page properties (except for Choice and a few others)

4. Keyboard navigation and shortcuts now work in read-only panels

5. Point-in-time rewind mechanic in yoursite.thymer.com/diag.html

6. Sort choices in dropdowns now respect the linked collection’s sidebar sort order

7. Sidebar collapse/expand remembers sidebar width

8. Mobile Sidebar

9. Related section for Collections

10. API and Bug fixes.

• Thymer Task Collection Setup (simple collection)

In this video, Daniel shows a really simple way to set up a collection inside of Thymer:

• Thymer Invites

The devs gave me a few invite codes to access the Alpha version:

https://thymer.com/alpha to sign up and get started.

• THYMER-8JKBWHP5

• THYMER-7GQ781VX

• THYMER-M7V5D6BZ

• THYMER-NGZ85F1C

• THYMER-ZPDH4NHS

• THYMER-6SJY2M0D

• THYMER-NJCD2XQ0

• THYMER-LCY5FJ96

For more chat about Thymer, please see the unofficial Discord.

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Obsidian

• V 1.11.6

A good few things have been improved and implemented in Obsidian (Catalyst) over the past week:

1. The help window and the vault chooser window have been updated to match the new design used in app settings.

2. Bases: Table cell menu now shows “Copy” and “Paste” menu items.

3. Settings: The sidebar no longer shows icons next to Community plugins.

And the mobile app has had some cosmetic changes:

1. New Appearance settings (enabled by default):

2. When full-screen mode is enabled, the phone’s status bar is now hidden when you scroll in a note.

3. New App actions (the menu when you press and hold on the app icon):

4. Vault switcher has a new option to “Open Vault in Restricted Mode.” This option opens the vault without activating any plugins. If your vault fails to open due to a plugin issue, use this option to troubleshoot.

Changelog

• My First 14 Days of Claude Code + Obsidian

As Construct By Dee is taking a similar path to me in exploring Obsidian and Claude Code, I thought his article, "My First 14 Days of Claude Code + Obsidian," was a valuable read, as it takes us through the setup and what has changed in his process and workflow.

Article

On this note, also check out Theo’s post (pay-walled) on Claude Code x Obsidian: Time to Stop Ignoring AI in PKM?

• Interesting Reddit Posts

1. Better way to track personal finances in Obsidian - I use Obsidian for basically everything in my life, notes, important details, personal systems, you name it. I also track my income, expenses, and savings in Obsidian.

2. My progress after 1 week of Obsidian - Aside from the canvas on slide 2, which was the original reason I found this software, most of my effort has gone into indexing all my notes from across many places: Google Docs/Sheets, old computer files, and other lists like my Steam library. There's still a lot to index, but that's something for another day lol

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Capacities

• January 2026

The first release of 2026, and it is a big one! With this update, the devs have completely rebuilt search from the ground up to be faster, smarter, and work entirely on our device.

The update includes:

1. A new fully local offline-first search engine with many improvements suggested here and on our feedback board

2. Aliases for pages and custom object types

3. Block-linking search

4. and much more.

Check out the video release notes or the changelog.

• What’s Next

Capacities has released its latest What’s Next article. Includes:

1. CSV, Markdown and File Import

2. A Better AI Chat

3. Media types 2.0

4. Smart Context & Semantic Search

5. Connecting Capacities to Other Apps and AI Outside of Capacities

Some cool stuff is coming to Capacities.

• Feedback Needed

The team are looking for users’ feedback - this time on the right sidebar:

Today, we'd like to ask you how you're using the right-hand side panel. Do you have any workflows or requirements? Are you coming up against any friction points or finding things that are missing, or things that are overkill

Discord

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TANA

• MCP

For those of you who work with Claude Code or similar, you can now set up a Local MCP of your Tana graph! Build websites from your voice chats or meeting summaries! Convert #ideas into prototypes!

1. The Blog post is here and takes you through the workflows it unlocks!

2. Documentation: https://tana.inc/docs/local-api-mcp

I think this is very impressive. From what I am reading, you need a Tana Pro account.

• Voice Chat

Update to Voice Chat on iOS

Your voice chat on iOS could already chat with specific nodes, create custom Supertag instructions and more, but NOW:

1. Search the web!

2. See what is in your sidebar - your pinned nodes are available to your voice chat, whether or not you are chatting with those nodes specifically, or are using general voice chat!

3. Search your graph - text search your graph for other nodes!

Voice chat on Android

All Android Tanarians now have access to the Tana voice chat. Hurrah for the droid!

• Tana Working Knowledge Session

4 weeks to get your knowledge working

The Tana team are trying something new in February: a space to work on a knowledge project in Tana. Research a topic, collect sources, and build your understanding. Whether you’re just getting started or years into your system.

What happens:

• You bring your knowledge project

• Weekly sessions where we share what’s working (and what’s not)

• Coworking time to actually do the work together

• Async discussion throughout the week

Two ways to join:

• Explorers: Drop into sessions, share what you’re working on, learn from others.

• Month-long practitioner (limited spots): Commit to one session/week, 4-10 hours on your project, and share what you learn. Sign-up survey here.

Working Knowledge Event Calendar

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Logseq

• Logseq + Claude Code: AI-Powered Database Management for PKM (.md Version)

Dario talks us through a bit of his AI-powered database management, using the .md version of Logseq.

Ever struggled with duplicates / messy data in your Logseq workspace? In this video, I show you how I’m using Claude Code (not Cowork - that’s unfortunately Mac only) to assist with cleanup tasks in my personal knowledge management system.

• How are Logseq + Claude users planning to migrate to the DB version?

For those who liked Dario’s interaction between Logseq and Claude, but want to do the same in the DB version, op has your back in his post: I’m curious about how people here who use Logseq + Claude (or other LLMs) plan to handle the move to Logseq’s DB-based version.

Right now, one of the big advantages (at least for me) of the markdown-based graph is that Claude can directly read and edit .md files pretty easily.

Responses are - there is an MCP available.

• Self-Hosted Sync

The branch is not merged to master yet; it still needs some tests before releasing it to all testers, but you can give it a try with the new sync:

https://test-sync.pages.dev/

The new sync supports both Cloudflare and local Node.js server https://github.com/logseq/logseq/pull/12315

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Appflowy

v0.11.1 is out! This release includes many highly requested database features.

New database features available on the desktop app:

• Gallery, list and chart views

• Grouping in Grid: Group by allows you to organise database entries into collapsible sections based on property values (e.g., Status, Priority)

• Multi-row actions in Grid (full-page): Allows for powerful multi-row (bulk) actions within databases to edit, delete, or duplicate entries at once

• Database advanced filters: Useful when combining AND logic and OR logic in your filter

• Number property new format: Comma-separated (e.g., 10,000)

• Database Cover: Add a cover to beautify your database page

Non-database features available on the desktop app:

• Export as PDF: Export a single page as a PDF

• Mermaid diagram support: Add diagrams directly in Code blocks with split, preview, and code display modes, plus an expandable view

• Top nav bar breadcrumb revamp: Refreshed design with improved layout

• Document and database cover reposition: Reposition cover images for the best display

• AI Transcript & Meeting Notes: Use the mention person type for task assignees in the action items of the AI summary

Upcoming releases:

• Google Drive Embeds

• Database Feed view and page comments

• Create a database page with a pre-defined template

• AI Meeting Notes auto-detect and start transcribing, and AI mini chat in the document with web search

• Recurring reminders

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Octarine

v0.34.1 out now! Improvements

• When you’re editing or creating a theme, changes to the colour palette are recorded in a history. This allows you to undo specific colour adjustments without having to cancel your entire editing session.

• A new Settings → Editor toggle allows you to invert the copy shortcuts for formatting — choose whether CMD/Ctrl + C to copy plain text or formatted markdown.

• The rename selection now uses the mark background colour for better visual consistency with your theme.

• Handle responses from theme generation models gracefully, even when they do not conform to the requested JSON schema.

• Zooming in/out now also scales the editor text sizes as well.

and also -

Octarine@tryOctarine

Views about to get much faster!

5:28 AM · Jan 31, 2026 · 6 Views

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Workflowy

There was quite a bit of chat on Reddit about users complaining about recent changes in how things are done in Workflowy. It appears that Workflowy has changed its policy for node quota.

• Deleting a node, even a newly created one, will not update the limit. If I accidentally pasted 500 notes and then deleted them, it does not matter. My quota is still exhausted by those 500 nodes.

• Constant prompt to subscribe to Pro on the main window

Some interesting discussions on this:

1. Is this the worst update Workflowy has ever done?

2. Deleting nodes no longer updates the node quota.

Many users are suggesting that, if the tool is worth it, upgrading is the way forward.

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Craft

The Craft team have issued their first release of 2026.

We’ve been heads-down working on broad UX and performance improvements across all platforms, with one clear goal in mind: delivering the best possible personal productivity experience. Things should feel faster, more stable, and more polished everywhere you use Craft. Alongside this foundation work, we’re finally shipping one of the most requested features on Windows.

And we’re also sharing something new, a little unexpected, but deeply important to Craft’s future. Something we built for ourselves, that’s already changing how we build Craft: Craft Agents.

1. A smoother, faster Craft everywhere

2. Tabs are here for Windows

3. Craft Agents

Changelog

Download the latest version of the app: https://www.craft.do/download

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Noteey

The new version V1.46.0 changelog is now available for download. The UI looks much better!

• Comprehensive UI upgrade, much more beautiful.

• Optimised project list page

• Copy links from individual transcript lines

• Rename weblinks

• Remember connection line styles automatically

• Refine canvas element borders

• Add Japanese and German localisation

• Images added to the canvas now default to square corners

And much more.

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That’s all for this week. Thank you very much in advance for reading, and I look forward to bringing you more PKM news next week.